Who are you? What have you done with Johnrankins?!?!
Actually this isn't the first time I agreed with you. We agreed on the worthlessness of Northrop didn't we?
Who are you? What have you done with Johnrankins?!?!
that seems unlikely. The one thing about a mass slave revolt would be that the enemy would be all over the place, not confined to a front line in a war. When the Union armies surged forward in OTL, the southern armies saw wide scale desertion, even though the armies were nowhere near a lot of their homes. In this scenario, the solders' families are threatened pretty much everywhere...
which kinda negates the POD in the OP...A mass slave revolt is all but impossible, given that it would be impossible for insurgent groups to communicate with each other.
which kinda negates the POD in the OP...
well, the OP wants a full scale Haiti type of revolt, so that doesn't fit the bill...No, it just means that such a rebellion would be localized in, say, Wilcox County, Alabama. It wouldn't erupt simultaneously across Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi all at once.
well, the OP wants a full scale Haiti type of revolt, so that doesn't fit the bill...
well, the OP wants a full scale Haiti type of revolt, so that doesn't fit the bill...
I don't know why anyone would want that kind of revolt to be successful again, all it did was genocide the Whites on Haiti and really radicalize the South as French refugees told horror stories about what the slaves did to their families. It just screams violent revenge fantasy.The OP is very near ASB. Haiti was the one and only time in known history that a slave revolt actually worked. Before then the slave revolt was put down before it could overthrow the government. There were a number of factors that were present in Haiti that allowed it to happen that weren't present in the South such as massively outnumbering the slave owners and not having only a small army anywhere near it. The Whites would outnumber or only be slightly outnumbered by Blacks and had a well trained large army.
The Blacks get wiped out. Like it or not the Whites have larger numbers, better training, better weaponry, better organizations and more money. On Haiti the Whites were outnumbered 10:1 or more and few had military training while the Blacks had nothing to lose as life expectancy was so low there. In the CSA Whites outnumber Blacks, many had military training and the life expectancy of a slave was decades. Haiti was seen as an example to White Southerners and they pretty determined it wouldn't happen to them and took steps to avoid it. Much as I strongly dislike the Antebellum South they were not stupid people to the last man.
A brutally savage uprising would not play well in the North. Even free blacks like Frederick Douglass knew this and never called for such action. Why do think he and and other main stream abolitionists were conspicuously absent from Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?
What IS more likely is a Spartacus like rebellion that amasses an ad hoc Army that marches northward freeing slaves as it attempts to reach Union lines. It is very likely that something like this, especially if joined by persecuted white Unionists, would be greeted with open arms by many in the North. Think Free State of Jones meets Spartacus by way of Xenophon's Ten Thousand. That would have been great.
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wow. That is a rather fascinating POD....What IS more likely is a Spartacus like rebellion that amasses an ad hoc Army that marches northward freeing slaves as it attempts to reach Union lines. It is very likely that something like this, especially if joined by persecuted white Unionists, would be greeted with open arms by many in the North. Think Free State of Jones meets Spartacus by way of Xenophon's Ten Thousand. That would have been great.